let's just first begin with the fact that we know that mitt romney and president obama, they're both having to cancel events in virginia specifically because of the storm. the president staying back in the white house, monitoring this hurricane. in terms of optics in voting, how do you see the storm playing out? >> well, the optics are interesting simply because the president was supposed to go to colorado, and he is cancelling that trip. the state not affected by the storm to sort of stay and monitor the east coast. in other words, you don't want to be the president to be seen out campaigning if something horrific happens along the east coast. we know that. virginia is a huge battleground state, and all of them -- not just the president -- presidential candidates, but wives and surrogates had all planned journeys into virginia to kind of go and stoke up their bases because it's so close, but you soak a lot of resource that is virginia may not have, looking at the size of this storm, so, many of the, we're having governor mcdonald, the virginia governor on today, so we'll talk to him